Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory
Richard Claxton "Dick" Gregoryis an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, and comedian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth12 October 1932
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
belonging black civil confused folks freedom given human people
Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.
looking
You're looking at something that is going to revolutionize the whole world.
white people lasts
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
space
Fear and God do not occupy the same space.
white years eleven
I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.
information limits
There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
healthy
It's cool to be healthy.
medicine race sick
Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
taken kids home
No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
love-is lovable dangerous
Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.
money eye lasts
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
mom mother father
When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
gone good-things good-old-days
The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.
peace war home
The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.